Just found a speech by Paul Wellstone given on a Colombian massacre.

[Judi Lynn]

It needs to be be seen:

MASSACRES IN COLOMBIA (Senate - July 14, 2000)


Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I want to bring something to the attention of the Senate today. Even though most Senators are gone, I want to do this because I think it should be done in as public a way as possible. I bring to the attention of colleagues a piece in the New York Times. It is a front-page story, `Colombians Tell of Massacre, as Army Stood By.'

When you read this story, there will be tears in your eyes. I don't know whether they will be tears of sadness or tears of anger. I will read just the first few paragraphs:

El Salado, Colombia: The armed men, more than 300 of them, marched into this tiny village early on a Friday. They went straight to the basketball court that doubles as the main square, residents said, announced themselves as members of Colombia's most feared right-wing paramilitary group, and with a list of names began summoning residents for judgment.

A table and chairs were taken from a house, and after the death squad leader had made himself comfortable, the basketball court was turned into a court of execution, villagers said. The paramilitary troops ordered liquor and music, and then embarked on a calculated rampage of torture, rape and killing.

`To them, it was like a big party,' said one of a dozen survivors who described the scene in interviews this month. `They drank and danced and cheered as they butchered us like hogs.'

More:
http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/071401.htm

[EFerrari]

1. Judi Lynn, you are a treasure.

Thank you!

[Judi Lynn]

2. You know why Paul Wellstone was hated by Republicans? He was intelligent.

He looked intelligent, instead of dull, dead, mentally impaired, morally bent, terminally sour like Republicans.

http://upload.wikimedia.org.nyud.net:8090/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Paul_Wellstone%2C_official_Senate_photo_portrait.jpg/220px-Paul_Wellstone%2C_official_Senate_photo_portrait.jpg
They probably thought he was putting on airs!

Thank you, EFerrari, for your threads, thoughts, comments.

[midnight]

3. We gave these killers money with no strings attached?

Mr. WELLSTONE. We just voted, with essentially no strings attached, to be involved in a military operation in Colombia with the money going for a military operation, to a military that does not lift a finger while these paramilitary death squads go in and massacre innocent people. I say to Senators, Democrats and Republicans, this is no longer Colombia's business. This is our business because we now have provided the money for just such a military, which is complicit, not only in human rights violations--I spoke about this on the floor of the Senate--but in this particular case in the murder of innocent people, including small children.

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a letter I sent to Secretary Albright.



Wish I had seen this earlier.... It deserves more attention.

[MedicalAdmin]

4. Like the Kennedy brothers

Sen. Wellstone was too dangerous toTPTB to live.

RIP